Director: Fiona Murphy Producers: Ed Dallal, George Carey, André Singer
Description:
This is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraq’s first wave of refugees. From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment and escape, moving individual stories take us from past to present unfolding onto the wider story of the Middle East. In their lives are played out the consequences of the self-serving monarchy imposed by the British, Nazi influence, and the creation of Israel. After 2,600 years living peacefully in the area, in one generation the community vanishes. With vivid testimony, home movies and news archive, as well as footage from Iraq today, we follow the lives of four families trying to make sense of turbulent times.
Biography: Fiona Murphy trained at the BBC and worked at Granada and Third Eye before becoming a journalist. After reviewing films for Paper Magazine in New York, she freelanced in London, writing on design for The Guardian and The Financial Times amongst others. She returned to filmmaking and her film The Other Irish Travellers ran as a Storyville on BBC4.
Ed Dallal produced Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread. He co-founded the 3Film Group and remains a non-executive board member of the São Paulo based company. Ed joined Spring Films where he has produced The Quest For The Holy Foreskin and Bollywood and Beyond: A Century of Indian Cinema.
George Carey created Newsnight, was editor of BBC1’s Panorama and founded Mentorn Media. He produced Question Time, and originated Channel 4’s Unreported World strand. His awards include the Prix Italia, BAFTA, Grierson, Emmy, and Peabody. He has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Television Society.
André Singer founded the award-winning documentary strand Fine Cut. He now runs Spring Films. André has been producer or executive producer of fourteen films with Werner Herzog. He directed Night Will Fall which was awarded the Focal Award, a Peabody Award, an Emmy and the Royal Television Society Award for Historical Documentary.
